Comments on: Google Canonical Href - with Mediawiki

By: Jools

Jools — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:35 +0000

Some discussion has taken place on the bugzilla link above. Seems the support in core only handles canonical urls for redirects, and not for other things, which means your examples above

/wiki/Article_Name
/wiki/index.php/Article_Name
/wiki/index.php?title=Article+Name
/wiki/Article_Name?action=view

still don’t contact a canonical url with 1.16. Please add your thoughts and comments to the thread.

By: Jools

Jools — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:50:26 +0000

I realise this blog is perhaps not the best place to include source. Anyway, I added a bug report to the bugzilla so i could attach a proper diff etc.

Please see

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21173

By: Jools

Jools — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:29:49 +0000

Hi,

this does not work with mediawiki 1.16svn. I played around and this works (and seems a more compatible way to add a link to the template

[code]
$wgHooks[’BeforePageDisplay’][] = "canonicalHref";

$wgExtensionCredits[’specialpage’][] = array(
‘path’ => __FILE__,
‘name’ => ‘Canonical Href’,
‘author’ => ‘Nick Sullivan nick at wikia-inc.com’,
‘description’ => ‘This extension prints a link type="canonical" tag with a canonical representation of the url, which is used by Google, MSN, and Yahoo! to funnel PageRank’
);

function canonicalHref(&$out, &$skin){
$out->addLink(
array(
‘rel’ => ‘canonical’,
‘href’ => $skin->mTitle->getFullURL()
)
);
return true;
}
[/code]

By: nick

nick — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:45:47 +0000

It is available in Wikia’s public repo:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CanonicalHref/CanonicalHref.php

Although I believe it’s going to be a in the Mediawiki core soon, if it’s not already.

-Nick

By: Rena

Rena — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:34:02 +0000

Hey Nick! I’m very interested in using this extension, but I can’t find it on the listing of MediaWiki’s approved extensions. Is there a problem with the extension? Thanks!